Professor Giuseppe Bessi (Italian, 1857-1922): A carved alabaster bust of a young maiden in Renaissance style dress dated 1898, on an associated late 19th century carved alabaster pedestal
the sitter clad in a ruff necked tight bodice with puffed sleeves, a crucifix about her neck, her flower dressed hair arranged in two long ribbon tied braids, inscribed and dated to the rear,
G. Bessi 1898
on a turned waisted circular socle, the sectional pedestal of lobed and fluted kopped baluster and tapering column form on moulded and canted circular foot,
some damages and restorations to socle and pedestal, the bust and socle, 57cm high, the pedestal, 116cm high approximately